Holistic Healing Arts

Professional Background

Christa Seybold-Haynes is a native of Austria, Europe. In 1984, she graduated from the Vienna University Medical School and after having completed four years of internship, was Austrian-certified for General Practice. Christa also holds Diplomas in Nutritional Medicine, Psychosocial and Psychosomatic Medicine from the Austrian Medical Association. In addition to her training in Western Medicine and Holistic Healing, she has been Austrian-certified for "Gestalt Pedagogy", a holistic teaching method based on the principles of Fritz Perls' Gestalt Therapy and Theory.

While in Austria, Christa established a private practice for Holistic Healing, taught as a College Professor in Health Education and provided psychosocial and psychosomatic counseling for cancer patients and their families in the Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Linz. As a member of an interdisciplinary hospice team, she had also many years of experience in terminally-ill counseling. In addition, Christa participated in church-sponsored health and charity projects in Romania (Europe) and in the Philippines.

From 1999 to 2005, Christa Seybold-Haynes lived in the USA (California and Hawaii) where she studied massage therapy, holistic healing, and nutrition. She has also worked as a holistic health practitioner and taught health, wellness and crafts workshops through the Continuing Education Program at Butte Community College (Oroville, California) and at CARD (Chico Area Recreation District).

Personal Philosophy

Besides being a student of world culture, holistic healing, and global spirituality, Christa Seybold-Haynes is also a visual artist and fashion designer. Her philosophy of healing is based on the Hippocratic Oath, "primum nihil nocere" which in Latin means "first, do no harm", and on the original meaning of the word "docere", the Latin root for "doctor" which also means "teacher". Christa believes that every person is responsible for his or her lifestyle, nutrition and thinking patterns, which may either promote health or cause disease. Therefore, she is convinced that the main duty of a health care professional is to respect each patient in his or her unique wholeness and to support the self-healing power of each patient by teaching a healthy relationship to body, mind, spirit, nature and humanity.